70 Nuclear power, risk and climate change

Wednesday, August 1, 2012: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM
OB 303 (Faculty of Economics)

RC24 Environment and Society (host committee)

Language: English
Session Organizers:
Midori AOYAGI, National Instiute for Environmental Studies, Japan and Nick PIDGEON, Cardiff University, Wales
Chair:
Ritsuko OZAKI, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Lost amongst imperatives of energy security, risk and climate change: Un-learn lessons of Chernobyl in the post-Soviet societies (Oral Presentation)
Leonardas RINKEVICIUS, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Lithuania

The present and the future of the towns where Fukushima nuclear plants are located: On some social aspects of the disaster, displacement, and reparation of the community (Oral Presentation)
Shun HARADA, The University of Tokyo, Japan; Kohei YOSHIDA, Institute of Humanities, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan; Yusuke YAMASHITA, Institute of Humanities, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Do people support nuclear power generation for reducing greenhouse gas? Risk tradeoffs among climate change and nuclear power generation (Oral Presentation)
Midori AOYAGI, National Instiute for Environmental Studies, Japan; Tomohiro TASAKI, National Instiute for Environmental Studies, Japan

Argentina and Brazil: Insights and current postures against the nuclear nonproliferation regime (Oral Presentation)
Valentina WAISMAN, Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina

Post-Fukushima: Regulatory challenges to nuclear power industry (Oral Presentation)
Marja YLÖNEN, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Tapio LITMANEN, University of Jyväskylä, Finland